John T. Scott
1940-2007
Shango's Necklace
1984
Kinetic sculpture: painted brass, steel and wood on flagstone base
19 x 10 x 5.75 inches (including base)
Faintly signed and dated on base.

Scott was born in New Orleans, LA, and studied at Xavier University, New Orleans, (BFA, 1962) and then Michigan State University (MFA, 1965). He became a professor of art at his alma mater, Xavier, after completing graduate school.

“ John T. Scott’s abstract sculptures of painted steel and aluminum use tension—formal, technical, and conceptual—as the structuring principle behind works that, while derived from the uniqueness of the artist’s New Orleans-based African American cultural experience, convey universal resonance through the suggestion of ritual.”
—St James Guide to Black Artists, Nicole Gilpin, p. 474